Strange one this. I’m trying to take the guernsey off the player and think it could be anybody, even a Hawk. You have 3 choices, none of them good. You brace for contact as Wright did and you shorten your season. You stop short to protect the player and let them mark unopposed and you shorten your career. You attempt to mark or spoil and you’re both open to collision resulting in 2 potential concussions, not one. Not what the AFL should want.
Maybe the “duty of care” should be on the player running against the flight of the ball. If you’re confident the player coming at you will stop short to avoid getting weeks, it’ll just encourage more of the same actions. The player running back with the flight should have the same awareness than the player running with. “ Go when it’s your turn” shouldn’t give you Carte Blanche to have opposition step out of your way.
out for this one.
